Events on Wednesday, February 6
Love's Messenger: Victorian Valentines
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ The Newberry Library
When it comes to professing love — true love — the Victorians had it down to a perfectly romantic science. In...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Stage 773
We have entered the age of divulgence — witness the explosion of blogs, podcasts, and YouTube. Even public radio, with This...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Metro
Channeling the pop-perfect melodies of the Beach Boys and the Beatles through a prism of lo-fi madness, Daniel Johnston is a...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Dominican University O'Connor Gallery of Art
Was the late Wesley Willis secretly a Renaissance man? With magical musical hits like "Rock 'n Roll McDonalds" and "Smoke Crack...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ The Renaissance Society
Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Millennium Park
The city seems to think it can lift our cold, broken spirits by taking the soul-crushing
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Woman Made Gallery
Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Smart Museum of Art
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Facets Cinémathèque
The prevailing wisdom in rural
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Smart Museum of Art
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Western Exhibitions
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke....
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ McCormick Gallery
Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled...
Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
